Clinical Diagnosis of Gastrointestinal Disease.

Abstract

The remarkable advances in basic and clinical understanding of digestive tract diseases over the past 2 decades have prompted a plethora of books. Most of these are texts covering the general field of gastroenterology by organ arrangement; a few deal primarily with specific organs only (such as liver disease) or with techniques (such as endoscopy) or "recent advances." The present book happily is arranged according to symptoms related to the gastrointestinal tract. The authors are Australian gastroenterologists and their approach in the first portion of the book is problem oriented. The last half deals with methods in diagnosis of gut